A senior US military commander has confirmed that the United States maintains limited cooperation with the military authorities in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, despite the West African nations reducing ties with traditional Western allies.
In an interview with AFP, Lieutenant General John Brennan, the deputy commander of Africom, stated that collaboration continues, albeit differently than in previous years. “We still collaborate. We have actually shared information with some of them to attack key terrorist targets,” Brennan said during a US-Nigeria security meeting in Abuja.
This confirmation indicates that some level of security and intelligence partnership endures with the military-led governments in the Sahel region.
